Outcomes assessed during the first year Self-administered questionnaires were used to assess psychosocial status of the family, healthcare utilization and healthcare expenses at baseline, one, four, seven and eleven months. Each time the family completed study questionnaires and when home visits were made, families were given twenty dollars as compensation. At eleven months, a research assistant conducted a home visit and assessed the home using the Caldwell HOME Inventory,27 and the parent-infant interaction using a scale developed by Holditch and Miles.28 Only results of rehospitalization rates during the first year will be presented in this paper.